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"Border surveillance has not detected any abnormal activity."

" 'A GARDEN INLOSED IS MY SISTER, MY SPOUSE'

Matthew 22:14

Give me the medieval
lull of the sexless, praying behind a smile,

the eyes forever
slicked in candlelight

and all the world
in waiting: fields

of ammonite and bronze beneath the sway
of pasture, chalk

and charnel in the far room of a mind

that never sleeps, and will not let itself
be gathered to itsgod, no warm and noir,

no slow extinction
filtered through the clouds,

but one thing, then another: green, then black;
hair in the lark's tongue, marrow in the pine."

--John Burnside

Van Gogh rats.

"a chilling moon
on the beach, dusk pours out
on the ledge"

--@poemexe.com

"When the monkey trainer was handing out acorns, he said, 'You get three in the morning and four at night.' This made all the monkeys furious. 'Well, then,' he said, 'you get four in the morning and three at night.' The monkeys all were delighted."